History Of Microbiology

Question 0

Belief that some forms of life arise spontaneously from non-living matter

Answer 0

Spontaneous generation

Question 1

Who suggested that diseases were caused by invisible creatures?

Answer 1

Girolamo Fracasto

Question 2

The idea that human disease is caused by infection with microorganisms

Answer 2

Germ theory of disease

Question 3

Important contributors to the germ theory were

Answer 3

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur

Question 4

Results of diseases

Answer 4

Genetics
Allergic reactions/autoimmune response
Biochemical/physiological deficiencies

Question 5

Cell theory

Answer 5

Robert Hooke

Question 6

First to observe and describe microorganisms correctly

Answer 6

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

Question 7

Showed that disease was a result infection microorganisms

Answer 7

Germ theory of disease

Question 8

Produced vaccines using attenuated strains of disease causing organisms

Answer 8

Louis Pasteur

Question 9

Important work with fermentation and putrefaction

Answer 9

Louis Pasteur

Question 10

French scientist

Answer 10

Louis Pasteur

Question 11

German physician

Answer 11

Robert Koch

Question 12

Formulated a series proofs to verify that a disease is directly caused by a specific microorganisms

Answer 12

Robert Koch

Question 13

Started the field of etiology

Answer 13

Robert Koch

Question 14

Using agar as a gelling agent

Answer 14

Robert Koch

Question 15

Creation of nutrient broth and nutrient agar

Answer 15

Robert Koch

Question 16

Creation of the perti dish

Answer 16

Robert Koch

Question 17

British physician

Answer 17

Edward Jenner

Question 18

Started the field of immunology

Answer 18

Edward Jenner

Question 19

Provided protection from disease by using a less virulent or attenuated version of a disease causing microorganisms

Answer 19

Edward Jenner

Question 20

Stan that differentiates bacteria into two groups based on the composition of their cell wall

Answer 20

The gram stain

Question 21

Hungarian physician

Answer 21

Dr.Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 22

Instituted the policy of hand washing and observed a marked reduction in the number of deaths associated with this disease

Answer 22

Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 23

American physician

Answer 23

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 24

Same observation as dr. Semmelweis

Answer 24

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 25

British surgeon

Answer 25

Joseph lister

Question 26

Improved surgical techniques to prevent wound infection

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Joseph lister

Question 27

Introduced antiseptic surgery

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Joseph lister

Question 28

British nurse

Answer 28

Florence nightingale

Question 29

Introduced cleanliness

Answer 29

Florence nightingale

Question 30

Described the first antibiotic penicillin

Answer 30

Alexander Fleming

Question 31

Substances produced by both bacteria and fungi to kill other microorganisms

Answer 31

Antibiotics

Question 32

Created the binomial system

Answer 32

Carl Von line

Question 33

Swedish botanist

Answer 33

Carl Von line

Question 34

Staphylococcus

Answer 34

Grape like clusters